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Originally Posted by NettoSuperstar!
If your gonna pull the rug under a large section of the population, at least have the decency to invest in education training and skills for the people in the mess you left behind! At Least Blair had a go at that!...This recession...Thatchers fault! Everything wrong with society... Thatchers fault!...she'd even steal milk from a bairn that one!
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How did Blair have a go at investing in education, training and skills? The very first thing that New Labour did when they got into power was to scrap the Assisted Places scheme which offered underprivileged children fully funded education at private schools, thereby making private education the preserve only of the priviliged and rich again. A cynical move by a New Labour government whose majority of MPs attended private schools themselves yet they wanted to deny that opportunity to any one else's child.
For a government that intends to fight the next election on the class issue, for those that dont know, here's the full list of all the labour mps who attended private schools and are oh sOOOO representative of the working class eh? Labour voters who still believe that BS are living in the past.
•Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood)
•Hugh Bayley (City of York)
•Hilary Benn (Leeds Central)
•Bob Blizzard (Waveney)
•Chris Bryant (Rhondda)
•Stephen Byers (North Tyneside)
•Charles Clarke (Norwich South)
•Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley)
•Jim Cousins (Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central)
•Alistair Darling (Edinburgh South West)
•Quentin Davies (Grantham and Stamford)
•Louise Ellman (Liverpool Riverside)
•Natascha Engel (North East Derbyshire)
•Mark Fisher (Stoke-on-Trent Central)
•Barry Gardiner (Brent North)
•Linda Gilroy (Plymouth Sutton)
•Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe and Sale East)
•Peter Hain (Neath)
•Patrick Hall (Bedford and Kempston)
•Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East)
•Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham)
•John Healey (Wentworth)
•Margaret Hodge (Barking)
•Geoff Hoon (Ashfield)
•Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley)
•Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood)
•Sally Keeble (Northampton North)
•Ruth Kelly (Bolton West)
•Jim Knight (South Dorset)
•Ivan Lewis (South Bury)
•Martin Linton (Battersea)
•Ian Lucas (Wrexham)
•Denis MacShane (Rotherham)
•Fiona Mactaggart (Slough)
•Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley)
•John Mann (Bassetlaw)
•Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West)
•Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South)
•Bob Marshall-Andrews (Medway)
•Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton)
•Chris Mole (Ipswich)
•Julie Morgan (Cardiff North)
•Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West)
•Nick Palmer (Broxtowe)
•Gordon Prentice (Pendle)
•James Purnell (Stalybridge and Hyde)
•Nick Raynsford (Greenwich and Woolwich)
•Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West)
•Andrew Slaughter (Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush)
•John Spellar (Warley)
•Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West)
•Howard Stoate (Dartford)
•Gavin Strang (Edinburgh East)
•Mark Todd (South Derbyshire)
•Kitty Ussher (Burnley)
•Keith Vaz (Leicester East)
•Malcolm Wicks (Croydon North)
•Michael Wills (Swindon North)
•Rosie Winterton (Doncaster Central)
•Shaun Woodward (St Helens South)
As regards the recession, this has followed 10 years of Brown's stint as chancellor, not a good legacy is it. At least Thatcher enabled thousands to buy their own property (Right to Buy), and offered the Assisted Places Scheme for underprivileged children. As for the recession, Brown created it during his dire stint as Chancellor, and is now engineering a false recovery to bolster his election chances. He treats the electorate as if they are idiots, but most of us can see through the labour spin machine.
Since New Labour came to power, we have seen a return of the unofficial strikes, official strikes, wildcat strikes etc, that have plagued our economy during the previous five decades. I am not against Unions but they have to understand that their workers are not superior to any others and if there is no more money in the pot then they should be pleased they, at least, HAVE a job. Thatcher was instrumental in curbing the power of the Unions who held the public to ransom too often. Under New Labour, the Unions, who significantly fund the party, have grown arrogant and greedy again. Recent examples are Royal Mail and British Airways, whose members are quite happy to disrupt people's lives and expect us to sympathise with their cause.
Thatcher may have been a lot of things, good and bad, but at the time she was in power SHE was actually the best man for the job, and the Tories have paid the price of ousting her as leader by being unable to put forward a viable leader of the party for some time. Thatcher was the daughter of a grocer, and had to be twice as good as the men in order to progress in politics (we're talking forty years ago when women were still being overlooked for all the top jobs). Cameron is far from perfect, but I'd take him over an unelected Brown who, along with his cohorts, has proven himself to be not up to the job.